Until now, I hid categories on the Categories page. I could still access them from the Categories page, but if I selected the Discussions page instead, I just got all the topics from the non-hidden Categories. That's gone now. Is it going to stay gone? It made keeping up with a handful of categories a *lot* easier than digging down into separate category menus
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The hide/mute category feature has indeed been removed as a part of the forum platform development.
Instead we have enabled the Follow function in the same place:
Once you follow a category you can then sort the Recent Discussions page to show only discussions from Followed categories:
Hope this is a good substitute
Thanks,
-Mage
Do I have to go into every sub (or child) category and individually select every single one I want to follow? I was only hiding the Sims 3 section, so it was quicker the way it was before. Also every time I click to follow a sub category it takes me back to the main category list then I have to go back in to select the next one.
Okay, thank you for the clarification but I still have a problem. I 'followed' all the boards I want to see in recent discussions, but when I click on 'discussions' at the top for recent discussions and then choose to view 'following' boards now instead of 'all' I only see threads from the Off Topic category and nothing else. I double checked to make sure I'm actually following them and I am. I followed your directions exactly as posted so I'm guessing there's a glitch involved?
It was a lot easier when we were allowed to just hide the boards we didn't want to see. I'm curious as to why this was changed to the new method? In my opinion it's not as user friendly.
@joleaco That sounds like it is working as intended - you would have to follow every category you wish to follow individually.
That sounds like something we can take look at for the future as an enhancement for this - thank you for the feedback!
-Mage
I know Off Topics is popular, but it wasn't showing just the most recent, it was showing ALL the Off Topic threads and only those when I was following that thread along with others.
For some reason the follow feature is only recognizing the first thread I followed and ignoring all the others. Any ideas why?
Could you give me an example of a category your following in addition to Off Topic? For example, I tested this just now on my account by following Off topic and The Sims 4 General Discussion categories and discussions from both showed up.
Thanks!
-Mage
Just to make sure did you follow the categories from the main forum page or did you go into the category and follow the "child categories"?
For example if you want to follow The Sims 4 General Discussion you would need to select the Follow option after entering The Sims 4 › Discussion category.
-Mage
I'll try to follow child categories as suggested and see if it works for me and let you know. Thanks again for all your help, very much appreciated!
EDIT: @EA_Mage Cool, it works for me now! \o/ #thumbsup